Special Subject: History of Capitalism
W 2-5, 5-231
This discussion-based seminar offers an introduction to the history of capitalism and a broad overview of debates concerning its impacts on social life, with a particular focus on the modern American experience. The United States occupies a central position in today’s capitalist global system and has played a key role in shaping both the development of capitalism and critical responses to its advance. Drawing on primary historical documents and secondary literature from multiple disciplines, the course examines capitalism’s relationships to race, class, and gender, as well as the impacts of business and government, nature and environment, and finance and technology on economic transformation in the United States and beyond.
Please contact ? Contact Profs. Caley Horan (cdhoran@mit.edu) and Jason Jackson (jbrj@mit.edu) for details.